Journal of Xidian University ›› 2019, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (6): 60-66.doi: 10.19665/j.issn1001-2400.2019.06.009

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Method for suppressing clutters with the joint low-rank and sparse model

HUANG Chen1,LIU Hongqing2(),LUO Zhen2,ZHOU Yi1   

  1. 1. School of Communication and Information Engineering, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China
    2. Chongqing Key Lab of Mobile Communications Technology, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China
  • Received:2019-06-25 Online:2019-12-20 Published:2019-12-21
  • Contact: Hongqing LIU E-mail:hongqingliu@outlook.com

Abstract:

The existing method for suppression of clutters of the through-the-wall radar system requires full size data, which may increase the complexity of the system. To this end, a wall clutter suppression method with the joint low-rank and sparse model is developed in this paper. In the proposed method, the task of separating wall clutters and target returns is transformed into a low-rank and sparse constrained optimization model requiring less data. To solve this optimization, the alternating direction method for multipliers is adopted. After clutter suppression, the return signals are used for the image formation. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method is significantly effective on clutter suppression in different scenes. Compared with the existing methods such as singular value decomposition and iterative soft thresholding, the proposed method has a higher target-to-clutter ratio in the radar imaging results.

Key words: through-wall-radar, clutter mitigation, low-rank, sparse reconstruction

CLC Number: 

  • TN957.52